586: Salmonfly Fishing in the Gunnison Gorge for Brown Trout
Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast
Interviews, Tactics, Gear, Field Judging
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🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast. I am laying on my back right now. It is, that sounded kind of weird. I'm laying on my back in a cave, kind of a cliff overhanging here in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. |
| 0:20.0 | And it's June 30th. |
| 0:25.0 | Tomorrow will be July 1st. |
| 0:27.0 | And I've got my friend, Moni Parsons here with me. |
| 0:31.0 | And we hiked into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison today using the |
| 0:38.4 | Chucker Trail and we loaded up my I guess I should say we're on the banks of the Gunnison River in the Black Canyon and we loaded up my small 9 foot 8 raft that has a frame on it. |
| 0:59.1 | So Moni carried the frame and all his gear. |
| 1:02.2 | And I carried the raft and the floor and all of my gear down trucker trail and it took us about an hour and let me back up we got a shuttle from a place called |
| 1:19.2 | pleasure park which is kind of outside of Delta Colorado and we got at a guy named Joe and |
| 1:29.0 | Joe rode with us in my Yukon. I have a 2009 GMC Yukon that I keep up here in Colorado and |
| 1:38.8 | he rode with us dropped us off at Chuck or Trail at the top. I think it's like a mile, maybe a little more mile and a half. |
| 1:47.1 | It's on a trail down to the river. Probably at about 65 pounds, 65 to 70 pounds each. Got to the river, put the |
| 2:01.4 | boat together. We got on the water at about 6.15 in the evening |
| 2:10.8 | and we floated down to basically the first campsite, which is a place called Big Eddie. |
| 2:20.0 | There's a big circular Eddie out in front and it was raining |
| 2:23.7 | between Chucker and our campsite here which is only |
| 2:29.5 | maybe a mile probably not even a mile. Probably not even a mile. |
| 2:34.0 | Money probably turned like 15 fish. You probably |
| 2:42.0 | landed, probably close to a dozen and caught a couple nice |
| 2:47.9 | browns, a couple nice rainbows, all on salmon flies, all on dries and we came up here and set up camp and then we got back in and kind of |
| 3:00.6 | got in the big eddy and fished around and caught a few more fish. |
| 3:05.0 | Then we came up and had some mountain house meals and we had lasagna and now it's about 10.05 and I'm laying on top of my thermarrest sleeping mat and I think it's a neot air thermarrest neo air and I've got my |
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